BACKGROUND Premature very low birthweight (VLBW) infants are born with an underdeveloped parasympathetic nervous system (PNS) which may limit their ability to respond adequately to feeding and may limit their capacities for extrauterine growth and development. OBJECTIVES To describe the patterns of autonomic response to feeding and identify relationships between change in heart period variabi...

Introduction: Exercise is important self care behaviour and is related to mortality in heart failure (HF). It is not always easy for HF patients to start exercising in the conventional ways (rehabilitation centre, fitness club). Virtual reality might be a solution to increase exercise in the home environment. It is conceivable that computer-based rehabilitation programs could be developed using...

BACKGROUND Hyperbilirubinemia is associated with increased mortality in heart failure (HF) patients. We evaluated the impact of evidence-based medical therapy, in particular beta-blocker on the survival of patients with HF and hyperbilirubinemia. METHODS AND RESULTS We reviewed the charts of all patients followed at our tertiary care heart failure clinic. Hyperbilirubinemia was defined as tot...

An array of SeaSonde HF radars has been deployed along the Oregon coast by P. M. Kosro of the College of Oceanic and Atmospheric Sciences, OSU. Data from a two-site HF array, which provides measurements of surface currents over a region about 50 km square, have been collected since November 1997. This project is aimed initially at developing and applying, in cooperation with Kosro, methods for ...

The thermal unimolecular dissociation of CH3F was studied in shock waves by monitoring the UV absorption of a dissociation product identified as CH2F. It is concluded that, under conditions applied, the formation of this species corresponds to a minor, spin-allowed, dissociation channel of about 3% yield. Near to the low-pressure limit of the reaction, on the other hand, the energetically more ...

OBJECTIVES The present study assessed the changes in functional, biochemical, and echocardiographic measures following long-term liothyronine therapy in heart failure (HF) patients with low-triiodothyronine (T3) syndrome (LT3S). METHODS In the present placebo-controlled, double-blind study, adult patients with clinically stable New York Heart Association functional class I-III systolic HF and...

Searching for heavy fermion (HF) states in non-f-electron systems becomes an interesting issue, especially in the presence of magnetism, and can help explain the physics of complex compounds. Using angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy, scanning tunneling microscopy, physical properties measurements, and the first-principles calculations, we observe the HF state in a 3d-electron van der Waa...

We report here a benchmark study on the bimolecular nucleophilic substitution (S(N)2) reaction between hydride and methane, for which we have obtained reference energies at the coupled cluster toward full configuration-interaction limit (CC-cf/CBS). Several wavefunction (HF, MP2, coupled cluster) and density functional methods are compared for their reliability regarding these reference data.

Heart failure (HF) is associated with high morbidity and mortality and its incidence is increasing worldwide. MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are potential markers and targets for diagnostic and therapeutic applications, respectively. We determined myocardial and circulating miRNA abundance and its changes in patients with stable and end-stage HF before and at different time points after mechanical unloadin...